The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 85
‘No, I should not mind that either,’ answered Fanfaronade.
Who acts: I · What happens: not mind, answer · To what, where: Fanfaronade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | ADP | _ | 9 either | case |
| 9 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mind | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | should | I | that either | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Fanfaronade | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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